13 JULY 1974, Page 5

Tailpiece

'Sir: Benny Green's anecdote about how the man acquired his long black beard, namely by swallowing a horse, all but the tail, brings to mind a remedy for asthma recently heard on radio which consisted of half-swallowing a lizard. In its efforts to regain freedom it would, the theory went, dr#g tin with it all the sufferer's obstructing phlegm. Again on the subject of the human face, I recently heard a rather apt description of a TV performer who, formerly handsome and clean-shaven, had chosen to appear with both chin amil upper lip well covered. It was said of him that he had had the wool pulled over his eyes and then allowed it to slip. G. Reichardt 12a Mount Pleasant Road, Poole .